Whitney Pipkin is a freelance journalist writing about food, agriculture and the environment from the Washington, D.C., area. She has written for The Washington Post, NationalGeographic.com, NPR and Smithsonian Magazine, among others. She also is a staff writer for the Chesapeake Bay Journal and BayJournal.com, covering these topics as they relate to the country's largest estuary. She blogs about food at ThinkAboutEat.com.
